Bill Text: NY S01288 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes the veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems to provide veterans with assistance in resume writing and employment placement services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-03 - referred to higher education [S01288 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S01288-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1288--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home- land Security and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 353-b 2 to read as follows: 3 § 353-b. Veteran career assistance. The director, together with the 4 chancellor of the state university of New York and the chancellor of the 5 city university of New York, shall establish a veteran career assistance 6 program. Such program shall provide veterans with assistance in resume 7 writing and employment placement services. The program shall be devel- 8 oped and maintained with resources already available to the division and 9 the university systems including, but not limited to, campus veterans 10 service offices, career centers, and opportunity centers. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 12 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03577-03-1